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Iran is a mosaic of diverse ethnic groups, contrary to popular belief that all Iranians are "just Persian". [30] [31] According to a 1939 survey and Anthropological study of the people of Iran, [32]: 209 these were the ethnic groups that resided in the following areas of Iran:
The Persians (/ ˈ p ɜːr ʒ ən z / PUR-zhənz or / ˈ p ɜːr ʃ ən z / PUR-shənz) are a Western Iranian ethnic group who comprise the majority of the population of Iran. [4] They share a common cultural system and are native speakers of the Persian language [6] [7] [8] as well as of the languages that are closely related to Persian.
The majority of the population of Iran (approximately 80%) consists of Iranian peoples. [1] The largest groups in this category include Persians, mostly referred to as Fars (who form 61% of the Iranian population) and Kurds (who form 10% of the Iranian population), with other communities including Semnanis, Khorasani Kurds, Larestanis, Khorasani Balochs, Gilakis, Laks, Mazandaranis, Lurs, Tats ...
However, the term has also come to describe the populations of major cities (e.g. Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan) more broadly, who consist of a blend of various ethnic groups, all unified by their use of Modern Persian—a language that incorporates elements from Arabic, Turkish, French, Russian, Mongolian, and Parsi.
The map shades the whole area within the national borders of each country with the colors defined in the legend below. References for the numbers are to be found at the end of the List of countries by Persian-speaking population article on the English Wikipedia, also in farsinet.com and Ethnologue .
A 2007 study on the genetic history of Europe found that the most important genetic differentiation in Europe occurs on a line from the north to the south-east (northern Europe to the Balkans), with another east–west axis of differentiation across Europe, separating the indigenous Basques, Sardinians and Sami from other European populations ...
In 2000, the Iran Press Service reported that Iranian expatriates had invested between $200 and $400 billion in the United States, Europe, and China, but almost nothing in Iran. [5] In Dubai, Iranian expatriates have invested an estimated $200 billion (2006). [29] Migrant Iranian workers abroad remitted less than two billion dollars home in ...
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